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Nomenclature
Hypericum gracilipes Stapf ex C.E.C.Fischer
Nomenclature
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Genus: HypericumSection: sect. Ascyreia
- holotype: K - N. E. Parry - 74
DIAGNOSTIC DESCRIPTION
Shrub c. 0-5 m tall, 'undershrub', with branches erect, not frondose. Stems reddish, slightly 4-angled and ancipitous when young, soon terete ; internodes 20-70 mm long, shorter than to much exceeding leaves; bark grey-brown. Leaves petiolate, with petiole 0-5-2 mm long; lamina (15) 23-60 x (6-)9-25 mm, ovate to lanceolate, acute to obtuse or rounded-apiculate, margin plane, not incrassate, base narrowly to broadly cuneate or shortly angustate, ± glaucous beneath, chartaceous; venation: 2(3) pairs main laterals, with midrib obscurely branched distally, usually without distinct tertiary reticulum; laminar glands dots and sometimes a few short streaks, ventral glands dense. Inflorescence 3-10-flowered, from 1-3 nodes, corymbiform, with short apical internode , without flowering branches from middle of current stem ; pedicels 5-10 mm long; bracts linear-lanceolate to linear, deciduous. Flowers 25-35 mm in diam., cyathiform; buds ± narrowly ovoid, acute or subacuminate. Sepals 5-9 x 1-3(4) mm, free, subimbricate or open, subequal, ± spreading in bud and fruit, narrowly elliptic to linear-oblong, acute to acuminate, with margin entire; midrib usually distinct, veins not prominent; laminar glands linear or interrupted, 4-10. Petals golden yellow ?, not tinged red, ± incurved, 2-18 x 19-15 mm, c. 2-3 x sepals, broadly obovate, with apiculus subterminal, rounded; margin very finely glandular-denticulate (or entire ?), with a few inframarginal gland dots. Stamen fascicles each with c. 50 stamens, longest 5-6 mm long, c. 0.25-.035 x petals; anthers deep yellow. Ovary 3.5-5 x 2-3 mm, ovo-id to ellipsoid; styles 3-4 mm long, c. 0.8 x ovary, suberect, outcurved towards apex; stigmas subcapitate. Capsule 9-13 x 5-7 mm, ellipsoid. Seeds dark reddish-brown, c. 1 mm long, cylindric to ovoid-cylindric, scarcely carinate, very shallowly linear-reticulate.